Hour show at 12.00 am, no wonder, restaurants are crowded with visitors who can not wait to enjoy the dish food menu is typical of South Tapanuli.
Restaurant owner, Zulfikar, 46, and his wife, Yusniar Nasution, 46, began to look busy serving her guests. "Starting at 11:00 am, we were open, but the menu is not complete. Usually a full menu at 11:30 am, and visitors began to crowded, "said Yusrizal who went down to the tables to say hello and see if his guest had delivered an order menu.
The menu is always sought after by customers is a buffalo rib bone marrow soup, grilled meats doused spicy sauce, mashed sweet potato leaves, fresh fish, sale of fish curry, fish and shrimp spicy sour starch and stir-fry sauce kecepe papaya flowers.
Customers who come not only ordered to eat in place, many are also to be eaten in the office or their homes. They are willing to queue to order, because if the lunch hour arrived, the restaurant will be packed with guests.
Sipirok restaurant that was founded in 2002 is so favorites in Medan. Originally Yusniar mother who founded the restaurant with a menu of typical South Tapanuli this with the name Noon Night in 1954. Then, after her mother died, her sister forward.
Yusniar did not want to miss, he also founded the restaurant with the same menu, but for people to know him, he gave the name Restaurant Sipirok. Besides Yusniar, in Medan, there are also restaurants Sipirok founded by his brother.
Initially this pair has only a small shop, with no employees. But over time, he opened a larger restaurant with a size of 15 × 15 square meters and employs 15 employees. Zulfikar even resigned as an employee of Medan City Sanitation Department to help her trade.
Sipirok-owned restaurants this Yusniar directly have a place for customers because smitten with buffalo marrow soup menu with prices Rp30.000 perporsinya and meat soup is pegged 15,000 perporsinya. In addition there are meat baked and mashed sweet potatoes and curry leaves salenya fish.
To keep the flavor, spice blend Yusniar still use what he got from his mother. Even himself who went down to mix ingredients every day. Yusniar only allows employees to slice onions only.
"Worried it feels so different, so I immediately mix, seasoning. It's also causing me not to open a branch for fear that can not be handled properly, "said the mother of three children.
The menu is roast beef cutlet baked with spicy sauce dish Sipirok typical acid. Made from finely milled raw red peppers mixed with a splash of orange juice and a sprinkling of onions. For grilled meats, this restaurant set prices Rp7.000 per portions.
Another typical menu which became a favorite customer is mashed sweet potato leaves are made from cassava leaves are pounded, with the added spice of kincung cempokak and then given a little coconut milk with perporsinya Rp3.000 price.
While sauce starch, Yusniar pleaded not use spices that are difficult, just chili, onion, ginger, galangal, sere stems, coconut milk, and given the banana mixture, then cooked with shrimp kecepe perporsinya Rp4.000 price.
Unlike spices that come from other Batak area, dry with coconut milk, such as carp Arsik Toba Batak origin, then Yusniar make spicy sour fish fed a little coconut milk and onions plus andaliman hobo is hard to find elsewhere.
If you have time stop by when the field is guaranteed you will feel the uniqueness of the flavor of each menu that is served warm. Quality and flavor are always maintained. For each day, Restaurant Sipirok spend Rp2 million just for the procurement of herbs and vegetables alone. That does not include meat. A day, a restaurant that takes the meat 75 to 90 kilograms of fresh meat. "Except for Saturday and Sunday, we only provide 55-75 kg of meat just because it is not busy as a normal day," said Zulfikar.
Not just any meat is used. Only meat that has been in the hip and thigh buffalo. This is what makes customers attracted to continue to visit Sipirok Restaurant.
Zulfikar admitted every day, eating house visited by hundreds of customers. As for the capacity of a meal, a restaurant that can accommodate up to 104 people. Customers who came were not only from residents of Medan, but also from outside the area, some even coming from the country that is bent Korea and Malaysia. "Local officials and Jakarta would often come here. On average they like with marrow soup and grilled meat Sipirok typical, "says Zulfikar.
Zulfikar statement that it is not excessive. Already many central officials at the level of ministers during a visit to Medan took a stop at the Restaurant Sipirok.
Unfortunately, the restaurant was not open until evening. They only provide for lunch. "Pity my wife, she was not able to until tonight. At 15.00 am, the food menu is all gone, "said Zulfikar who claims in a month can make a profit Rp30 million from the house to eat.
Authors: Lopez Yennizar
